UPDATE: the NPR Ombudsman is accepting comments on the underwriting performed by DHS. Use this as your chance to tell NPR to drop the underwriting support and oppose institution racism.
Driving to a meeting earlier this morning, I tuned into my favorite morning drive time show, Rhode Island’s own NPR station WRNI.It is their regular fund drive season and before the normal banter about who has donated the station played a clip from their underwriters.Included in the clip was an announcement from the Department of Homeland Security.The voice over was explaining to listeners how DHS supports NPR and that companies can contact DHS to being using the E-Verify system at their workplace to target illegal immigrants.
Apart from the racism of used behind the implementation of the law and the big brotherish quality of having EVERY person have to get approval from the federal government before they can get a job, THE PROGRAM JUST DOESN"T WORK. The error rate is staggering.
Naturally I was upset to here our local NPR affiliate broadcasting this trash that is more the style of Bugsy over on the other side of the dial.So I called up the station to voice my concerns.The folks there were great. Apparently there have been a number of complaints (see, its not just me) and the station masters themselves had put in a complaint to the national NPR. Apparently there are underwriters at the national level that local affiliates have to take, no matter what.Workers at the station forwarded me emails proving that they had indeed made the request to have the ads pulled from the local market.
But they also gave me the link to the NPR ombudsman so that any readers here that are fans of WRNI who want to keep the right-wing hate talk off our airwaves can send the right message.
If you want to send a message to WRNI about this issue, contact them HERE.
Also, you can join the FACEBOOK group to send your message HERE. Ask your friends to sign up.